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Backlash over UK inhumane treatment of migrants

Thursday, 03 November 2022 2:14 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 03 November 2022 2:14 AM ]

Saeed Pourreza

Press TV, Kent

This is one of the UK's biggest migrant processing centers: a former military facility in Manston, Southeast England. It's meant to house a maximum of 1600 people for a day or two at a time. At the moment its holding four times its capacity. Many have been here for weeks. Some are having to sleep on cardboard or concrete floors.

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and immigration has described the conditions here as “pretty wretched". There have also been calls for the government to get a grip and provide suitable provisions. That has led to some migrants being relocated out here but many more stay on.

Hundreds more were moved here on the weekend after a man threw petrol bombs at a migrant center a short drive from here in Dover injuring two people before killing himself. Those working with asylum seekers say the system needs a complete overhaul.

A day after the Dover bomb attack, interior minister Suella Braverman, a darling of the Conservative’s right-wing faction, accused of blocking plans to tackle overcrowding at the Manston center called the increase in migrant arrivals an invasion.

The British government says about 1500 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats over the weekend and the total number so far this year is around 40 thousand.

While the UK's interior minister fights for her job from which she's already resigned once over a breach of security, pressure on her to put the country's immigration house in order, is only growing.

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